Tune: Love Unknown
('My song is love unknown')
Matthew 5 v.43-48
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Jesus said, You of old
Have heard this word be told
Love neighbour, hate enemy
Tis how you should be
But I say you your enemies
Love too, my heart with this agrees
Bless them that do curse you
Do good unto them too
Which hate you, and pray for
Them that mistreat you sure
Which spitefully use you, and who
Do persecute you, it is true
That you may be children
Of your Father e'en then
He be in heaven, sun
He makes rise on each one
Shines on the evil and the good
Displaying its beams as it would* (*i.e. wills)
And He sends rain on just
And too on the unjust
For if you love only
They who love you, what be
The difference to sinners who
Love only those who love them true?
And if you greet only
Friends, family, what be
It more than sinners who
Welcome own kind anew?
Be you therefore perfect* as your (* i.e. whole, mature, etc)
Father is in heaven e'ermore
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Author:
orchidee (
Offline) - Published: February 20th, 2022 03:25
- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 6.6.6.6.8.8. format. Part of Jesus' 'Sermon on the Mount'.
- Category: Spiritual
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Comments3
Great message and couplets
Thanks Dove.
the use of your bracketed i.e.'s & * descriptive text was most thoughtful of you Mr. O ............................. N
Thanks N.
Well, with 'would/wills', it was the best I could do to rhyme it.
'Perfect' must mean in an old sense of the word. It means more likely mature, complete, etc.
Then again, no one's perfect - except you and I. Now we must eat humble pie for bragging! lol.
Good one Orchi.
Thanks Gold.
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